WOODBURY, Levi, a Senator from New Hampshire; born in Francestown, N.H., December
22, 1789; graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1809; studied law
in Litchfield, Conn., Boston, Mass., and Exeter, N.H.; admitted to the bar in
1812 and practiced in Francestown, N.H., 1813-1816; judge of the superior court
of New Hampshire 1816-1823; moved to Portsmouth, N.H., in 1819; Governor of New
Hampshire 1823-1824; member, State house of representatives 1825, and served as
speaker; elected as a Jacksonian to the United States Senate for the term
beginning March 4, 1825, and served from March 16, 1825, to March 3, 1831;
chairman, Committee on Commerce (Twentieth and Twenty-first Congresses);
nominated for the State senate in 1831 but declined; Secretary of the Navy in
the Cabinet of President Andrew Jackson 1831-1834, when he was appointed
Secretary of the Treasury 1834-1841; appointed chief justice of the superior
court of New Hampshire but declined to serve; elected as a Democrat to the
United States Senate and served from March 4, 1841, to November 20, 1845, when
he resigned; chairman, Committee on Finance (Twenty-ninth Congress); declined
the British mission; appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States and served from September 23, 1845 until his death in Portsmouth,
N.H., September 4, 1851; interment in Harmony Grove Cemetery.